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The Kindness of Strangers: Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
The Kindness of Strangers Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
Author: John Boswell
In The Kindness of Strangers, John Boswell argues persuasively that child abandonment was a common and morally acceptable practice from antiquity until the Renaissance. Using a wide variety of sources, including drama and mythological-literary texts as well as demographics, Boswell examines the evidence that parents of all classes gave ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780713990195
ISBN-10: 0713990198
Publication Date: 1989
Pages: 512
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Publisher: Allen Lane
Book Type: Hardcover
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